Andrea Prencipe

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Stefano Brusoni, Andrea Prencipe

This study analyzes the processes whereby organizations develop radical innovations in response to environmental transformations. It explores the changes in organizational structures, practices and...

ENABLERS, OUTCOMES, AND EFFETS OF PRODUCT BUNDLING: TOWARDS AN ANALYTICAL MODEL (2008)

Federica Ceci, Andrea Prencipe

Product bundling consists of “the practice of package selling”. This practice, mostly studied by economists and marketing scholars, has significant implications for monopoly power, level of...

A DIALECTICAL MODEL OF ORGANIZATIONAL LOOSE COUPLING: modularity, systems integration, and innovation (2008)

Stefano Brusoni, Andrea Prencipe

This paper uses the original dialectic concept of loose coupling as discussed in Orton and Weick (1990) to reconcile two apparently opposing empirical trends reported in recent organizational and...

Regions Matter : How Regional Characteristics Affect External Knowledge Acquisition and Innovation (2007)

Laursen, Keld, Masciarelli, Francesca, Prencipe, Andrea

To introduce new products and processes, firms often acquire knowledge from other organizations. Drawing on social capital and transaction cost theory, we argue that not only is the impact of such...

Copenhagen Business School, (2005)

Stefano Brusoni, Andrea Prencipe

To be presented at the workshop &quot;Organizing the search for technological innovation&quot;

Dynamic capabilities and sustained innovation: strategic control and financial commitment at Rolls-Royce plc (2005)

Lazonick, William, Prencipe, Andrea

Rolls-Royce plc is currently a powerful competitor in the turbofan engine industry, notwithstanding its own troubled history and the relative lack of international success of British companies in...

Systems integration: a core capability of the modern corporation (2005)

Hobday, Michael, Davies, Andrew, Prencipe, Andrea

Many of the world’s leading firms are developing a new model of industrial organization based on systems integration. Rather than performing all productive tasks in-house, companies are building...

Systems integration: a core capability of the modern corporation (2005)

Hobday, Michael, Davies, Andrew, Prencipe, Andrea

Many of the world’s leading firms are developing a new model of industrial organization based on systems integration. Rather than performing all productive tasks in-house, companies are building...

Dynamic capabilities and sustained innovation: strategic control and financial commitment at Rolls-Royce plc (2005)

Lazonick, William, Prencipe, Andrea

Rolls-Royce plc is currently a powerful competitor in the turbofan engine industry, notwithstanding its own troubled history and the relative lack of international success of British companies in...

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru / Sustained Innovation: Career Engineers, Stock Markets, and the Theory of the Innovative Enterprise (2004)

William Lazonick, Andrea Prencipe, William Lazonick, Andrea Prencipe

‘The origin of the RB211 and the bankruptcy of Rolls Royce’, and ‘The era of nationalization ’ can be attributed to Andrea Prencipe. The sections ‘Corporate control and financial markets...

SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series Paper No. 120 Change, Coordination, and Capabilities (2004)

Andrea Prencipe, Andrea Prencipe

Empirical studies on coordination of economic activities focused on the two polar cases of governance mode, namely vertical integration and market exchanges. Whether firms should be vertically...

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru / A COMBINATORIAL MODEL OF ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION: THE CASE OF PILKINGTON PLC (2004)

Anna Gr, Andrea Prencipe, Anna Gr, Andrea Prencipe

Based on an in-depth case study of Pilkington Plc, this study illustrates that received perspectives in organization theory and theory of the firm fall short of explaining organizational evolution....

Unpacking the Black Box of Modularity: Technologies, Products and Organizations (2001)

Brusoni, Stefano, Prencipe, Andrea

This paper explores the issues of knowledge and organizational coordination that stem from the adoption of modular product architectures. Modularity is a common characteristic of the products we have...

The Value and Costs of Modularity: A Cognitive Perspective

Stefano Brusoni, Luigi Marengo, Andrea Prencipe, Marco Valente

This paper discusses the issue of modularity from a problem-solving perspective. Modularity is in fact a decomposition heuristic, through which a complex problem is decomposed into independent or...

A Combinatorial Model of Organizational Innovation: The Case of Pilkington Plc

Anna Grandori, Andrea Prencipe

Based on an in-depth case study of Pilkington Plc, this study illustrates that received perspectives in organization theory and theory of the firm fall short of explaining organizational evolution....

Sustained Innovation: Career Engineers, Stock Markets, and the Theory of the Innovative Enterprise

William Lazonick, Andrea Prencipe

The aim of this paper is to document the role that career engineers played in the investment strategies and eventual survival of an organization producing large high technology capital goods. Using...

Change, Coordination, and Capabilities

Andrea Prencipe

Empirical studies on coordination of economic activities focused on the two polar cases of governance mode, namely vertical integration and market exchanges. Whether firms should be vertically...

Making Design Rules: A Multi-Domain Perspective

Andrea Prencipe, Stefano Brusoni

This study analyzes the processes whereby organizations develop radical innovations in response to environmental transformations. It explores the changes in organizational structures, practices and...

Dynamic capabilities and sustained innovation: strategic control and financial commitment at Rolls-Royce plc

William Lazonick, Andrea Prencipe

Rolls-Royce plc is currently a powerful competitor in the turbofan engine industry, notwithstanding its own troubled history and the relative lack of international success of British companies in...

Systems integration: a core capability of the modern corporation

Michael Hobday, Andrew Davies, Andrea Prencipe

Many of the world's leading firms are developing a new model of industrial organization based on systems integration. Rather than performing all productive tasks in-house, companies are building the...

Unpacking the Black Box of Modularity: Technologies, Products and Organizations.

Brusoni, Stefano, Prencipe, Andrea

This paper explores the issues of knowledge and organizational coordination that stem from the adoption of modular product architectures. Modularity is a common characteristic of the products we have...

EXPLORING THE MIRACLE: STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE KNOWLEDGE BASE IN THE AERONAUTICS INDUSTRY

VIRGINIA ACHA, STEFANO BRUSONI, ANDREA PRENCIPE

We consider here the governance of learning and the diffusion of technological knowledge in the civil aircraft industry. We describe a systemic process by which specialization in knowledge encourages...

Configuring Capabilities for Integrated Solutions: Evidence from the IT Sector

Federica Ceci, Andrea Prencipe

This paper investigates the way that firms' environmental context and organizational structure influence their strategic choices and lead to different capabilities configurations. Drawing on...

Regions Matter: How Regional Characteristics Affect External Knowledge Acquisition and Innovation

Keld Laursen, Francesca Masciarelli, Andrea Prencipe

To introduce new products and processes, firms often acquire knowledge from other organizations. Drawing on social capital and transaction cost theory, we argue that not only is the impact of such...